DPS909 and OSD600 Winter 2009 Eclipse WTP Weekly Schedule

Introduction

The course is broken into two parts. First, general open source and and community specific skills and ideas are taught. Students learn and/or review how to work with Java EE, WTP, Eclipse project techniques and practices. Second, students focus on bug fixing within the Eclipse WTP project itself.

Part I – Essential Open Source Development and Java/Eclipse Skills and Concepts

Week 1 (Jan 12) Course introduction

• Course introduction
• Intro to open source
• Intro to the Eclipse WTP project
  • Eclipse WTP Overview
  • Eclipse Web Tools Community Resources
  • Java EE Intro
• Software
  • Java Standard Edition: Java SE
  • Java Enterprise Edition: Java EE
  • Eclipse WTP - Install Procedure

• Readings/Resources
  • "Cathedral and Bazaar" by Eric Raymond
  • "Revolution OS" [film] (see also http://www.revolution-os.com/ or QA 76.9.A25 R68 2003)
  • Books
    • Eclipse Web Tools Platform – Developing Java Web Applications by Dai, Mandel, Ryman (ISBN 0321396855)
    • Eclipse Plug-ins [3rd Edition] (Eclipse Series) by Eric Clayberg and Dan Rubel
    • Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse
  • Database Resources:
    • MySql (.jar)
    • Oracle (.jar)
    • My Accounts
  • Java EE Tutorial and Samples (.zip)

• TODO
  • Create an account on this wiki for yourself
  • Create a personal wiki page on this wiki
  • Add a link for yourself to the People page and the Winter 2009 Open Source Students page
  • Create a blog (wordpress or blogspot or whatever) and create a feed category or tag called "open source"
  • Read the Blog Guidelines for instructions on how to use your blog in the course
  • Add your blog feed and info to the Open Source@Seneca Planet List so that it appears in the OpenSource@Seneca Planet
  • Blog on your reactions to the readings for this week.
  • Begin learning how to use IRC for communication. It is better to get started early such as your Eclipse workplace is set for programming.
  • After you install Eclipse for RCP/Plug-in Developers (175 MB) you will have ECF (Eclipse Communication Framework) and IRC client; you can open an IRC client from the Communication Perspective.

Week 2 (Jan 19) - Eclipse Webtools Overview

• Eclipse Newcomers FAQ
• Eclipse Webtools Architecture Overview
• Eclipse Naming Conventions
• Eclipse WTP Community
  • Eclipse WTP Community Education
• Blogs and Planets
  • OpenSource@Seneca Planet
• Intro to course wiki
  • Guided Tour
  • "Yes, you can edit it!"
  • Common Editing tasks, History, Reverting changes
  • Watches, Recent Changes
  • Comparing selected versions (cf. diff)
  • Editing help - Eclipse WTP conventions
• Project discussion
• Readings/Resources
  • Book
    • Java Developer's Guide to Eclipse
  • Tutorials
    • JDBC Tutorial
    • XML Tutorial
    • ANT Tutorial

• TODO
  • Complete all TODO items from Week 1
  • Blog about your reactions to "Cathedral and Bazaar" and "Revolution OS".
  • Comment in at least one other student's blog with your feedback to what they wrote
  • Create an account on Eclipse Bugzilla
  • Try to reproduce bug for BugID: 173912

The First Milestone At the end of the second week you must have an working environment: Please, follow the instructions to install Eclipse PlugIn and Eclipse WTP on your systems.

IMPORTANT NOTE: As it was suggested by Mr. Angel Vera: “The best place for the students to post question and get answers to it will be the eclipse newsgroup". There is a long list of newsgroups that you can benefit from depending on the question. As you are going to be working with Webtools, you would probably want to stay within the Eclipse Web Tools Platform Project. This is an open community of adopters and developers working with the Webtools project.

Week 3 (Jan 26) - Navigating the WTP source tree

• Introduction to the Eclipse WTP SOURCE CODE (CVS)
  • Navigating the WTP source tree
  • WTP Build website for committers

• Eclipse Plug-In Programming Model
  • Eclipse Plug-in
  • Eclipse Plug-In Development - Tutorial

• Readings/Resources
  • Tutorial
    • Servlet Tutorial
    • WTP Server Tools API Concepts and Roles
  • Book
    • Eclipse: Building Commercial-Quality Plug-ins (2nd Edition) (Eclipse Series)
• TODO
  • Inspect the bugs from the LIST of WTP BUGS
  • Read The first WTP Tutorial and use CVS Perspective from the Eclipse Plug-In Development environment to check out source code related to your bug(s).
  • Decide and publish under your name the list of bug(s) you would like to work on in this course.

The Second Milestone At the end of the third week you must attentively decide and publish the list of your bug(s) (i.e. the bug(s) you want to work on in this course) Please, update the project column of the table Winter 2009 Open Source Students with the following information: WTP-Bug ID, Severity, and Priority".

IMPORTANT NOTE: The marks obtained on the second milestone will be posted on your course page. Continue to wiki and blog intensively as a provided evidence of your persist involvement and dedication to improve WTP Projects by fixing bugs in such a wonderful community work.

Discussion and Helping Corner Purpose: Jordan our professor has told us in the class that we will help each other to solve our problems in this learning community. Indeed, we will be rewarded at the end of the semester if we have helped our fellow classmates to fix their bugs. Before we reach this goal, I think we can post up our problems and questions here. Some of us can offer our help by responding to these questions. As for me, I'm learning about a new culture of being "open" and collaborating with other students to solve my problems as well as others' problems.

1. Question(pliu): I've created a blog account and writen my first blog on wordpress.com. How do I feed my blogs to the the Open Source @Seneca Planet? (I really enjoyed reading the blogs that were fed to this Open Source @Seneca Planet over the weekend.) Please help me. Thanks.